Lost Luggage

Did you ever have a cardboard suitcase? The kind with the metal corners nailed on, leather handle, striped lining? The Continue reading →

Nostalgia

I smell the coolness of an alcohol swab, as if one were moistening my arm’s desert veins.   I was Continue reading →

Call It Anything but an Elephant

It almost feels like betrayal; polite sympathy from the family tree.   Questions like “Haven’t you had enough therapy?”   Continue reading →

Sleepwalker

Appetite, may you find your end of night between two English muffins, painted with the bravest strawberry jam.   Laundry, Continue reading →

Pudge

This morning I made the mistake of looking down at this belly of mine, this round thing that keeps on Continue reading →

And We Live Here

for Flint, Michigan.   The orange stuff pours from every pipe here and I wonder if it is something I Continue reading →

Help Line

On hold a good freaking hour, grateful for La-Z-Boy. Welcome desk to tech desk 1 to tech desk 2, back Continue reading →

Cough

Three decades since my first visit and my doctor’s retiring. Mounds of surgical gloves, trees of tongue depressors, lakes of Continue reading →